Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories

Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Barry Estabrook
• Narrated By Pete Larkin
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Supermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, The Price of Tomatoes, investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of the $5 billion fresh tomato industry. Fields are sprayed with more than one hundred different herbicides and pesticides. Tomatoes are picked hard and green and artificially gassed until their skins acquire a marketable hue.

Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Susan Allport
• Narrated By Tavia Gilbert

A nutritional whodunit that takes readers from Greenland to Africa to Israel, The Queen of Fats gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids know as omega-3s.

Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Amy Stewart
• Narrated By Heather Henderson
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They destroy plant diseases. They break down toxins. They plough the earth. They transform forests. They’ve survived two mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaur. Not bad for a creature that’s deaf, blind, and spineless. Who knew that earthworms were one of our planet’s most important caretakers? Or that Charles Darwin devoted his last years to studying their remarkable achievements?

On the Map

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Simon Garfield
• Narrated By Simon Shepherd

Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, but above all they tell our stories. From the early sketches of philosophers and explorers through to Google Maps and beyond, Simon Garfield examines how maps both relate and realign our history. His compelling narratives range from the quest to create the perfect globe to the challenges of mapping Africa and Antarctica, from spellbinding treasure maps to the naming of America, from Ordnance Survey to the mapping of Monopoly and Skyrim and from rare map dealers to cartographic frauds.

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Noam Chomsky
• Narrated By Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers...

In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and clarifying insight.